Entrepreneur and social change-maker Rick Chen founded Australia’s first crowd-funding platform,Pozible, an online service that enables creative individuals, groups and organisations to raise funds.

Pozible quickly became one of the major crowdfunding sites globally and has helped thousands of creative projects to get off the ground.

Headquartered in Melbourne, Pozible has offices in Silicon Valley, China and Singapore. In 2014 it was listed by the Australian Financial Review as a start-up to watch.

Mr Chen has a keen interest in web based technology, user interface design and innovative ideas that change people’s behaviour. He studied mechanical engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, China, and he holds a Master of Science in Digital Media Design from the University of Sydney.